11.   Bush has called for the consideration of building new nuclear power plants and the resumption of reprocessing nuclear fuel.

12.   If this fuel was reprocessed, it could provide enough plutonium to build four or five atomic bombs, experts said.

13.   It lags these nations because they poured time and money into research on enriching uranium and reprocessing spent fuel to extract plutonium as part of their atomic weapons programs.

14.   It will also halt construction of two larger reactors capable of expanding its output of spent fuel and seal its facility for reprocessing that fuel.

15.   Japan is counting on France to continue reprocessing the fuel until it builds its own reprocessing factory.

16.   Japan, France and Britain currently reprocess fuel, although the British are considering ending the practice because it is so costly.

17.   Now the industry is getting new consideration, as Bush calls for new nuclear power plants and the resumption of reprocessing nuclear fuel.

18.   Pyongyang has agreed not to reprocess the fuel, which could yield enough plutonium for up to six bombs.

19.   Some of the others have been fully destroyed, their missile sections removed, their reactors disassembled and their fuel reprocessed.

20.   The department last year reprocessed some fuel in a chemical factory at the Savannah River Site, near Aiken, S.C..